A man was shot and killed during an apparent robbery at his uncle’s mobile home on the South
Side early yesterday.

Chris Manley, 40, died shortly after 3 a.m. in the Caravan Village trailer park at 1049 Harmon
Ave.

His uncle, Hank Romine, called 911 from a neighbor’s trailer at 2:58 a.m.

“We were just sitting at the table,” he told a Columbus police dispatcher, “and one of his
buddies came in and wanted to talk to him. ... Someone came in here and shot him.”

Romine told the dispatcher that the man ran off after the shooting.

Police said in a release that the shooter was trying to rob Manley.

Romine called 911 from the home of Darla Igel, his across-the-road neighbor for 12 years. She
said Manley had been helping out his uncle, who had just been released from the hospital for cancer
treatments. Manley was always kind, she said.

“Chris was giving and he was easygoing, and I have no clue” who would shoot him, she said. “They
were probably just robbing him for money.”